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Blog post from Dash0
Dash0 has acquired Polar Signals to integrate continuous profiling and its Great Lakes database into SignalStore, replacing ClickHouse over time to improve scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and deployment options. The founders say the partnership emerged from a conversation in Berlin, where Dash0’s challenges managing observability data aligned with Polar Signals’ fifth-generation database architecture, designed for highly variable profiling data using columnar technologies such as Parquet and Apache Arrow. Polar Signals uses low-overhead eBPF sampling to collect production CPU profiles without interrupting applications, supports compiled languages, and optimizes storage through techniques including stack deduplication and deferred symbolization. The combined company also emphasizes production-scale GPU profiling for NVIDIA/CUDA workloads, which connects CPU calls to GPU kernel behavior and identifies performance bottlenecks such as stalled threads. Dash0 plans to unify metrics, events, logs, traces, and profiles within a shared database and query experience, while making data available to AI agents through MCP and CLI tools. Planned features include CPU, memory, and GPU visibility at code-level detail, automated tuning suggestions and pull requests through Agent0, and adaptive profiling detail through SignalControl; Polar Signals’ team and its open-source Parca project will join Dash0.
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